September 6, 2010

Stephen Hawking Gets PR Help From God

By invoking the deity, the eminent scientist has discovered the formula for creating a popular success from abstruse science

Hold onto your mitres, folks: Stephen Hawking is back in the news, with the revelation that science has proved the universe can do without God (or something like that). This theologico-physical bombshell has landed him on the Times's front page (I'd link to it, but, you know ...), a slot on both the News at 10 and Channel 4 and "“ according to the Daily Mail "“ has already provoked a retaliatory jihad from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Could it be that he's...